Sun Pharma will finally merge with Taro as a single company, after failed attempts to absorb the firm over a decade ago. Also, the firm hints about its upcoming generic portfolio, including GLP-1 products, as well as increasing investment into its specialty business.

Four years after pleading guilty plea generic price-fixing allegations, the former Sandoz US vice-president of business contracting and analytics, Hector Armando Kellum, will serve his sentence outside a jail cell and pay a fine.

Sun’s Taro subsidiary is looking to move forward with an eight-figure settlement deal in the US, after plaintiffs including a firefighters’ pension fund accused the firm of misleading investors via its involvement in generic price fixing, leading to a fall in the price of its securities.

Plus deals involving BioVaxys/IMV, Immunome/Ayala, Nascent/Manhattan BioSolutions, AVROBIO/Tectonic, Sanofi/Synthekine, NAYA/Florida Biotechnologies as well as deals in brief and tech transfer agreements.